Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2010 -- #1016

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Published on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:46:03 GMT Indexed on 2010/12/28 4:54 UTC
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In this Issue: Sacha Barber, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Blankenburg(-2-), Martin Krüger, Ryan Alford(-2-), Michael Crump, Peter Kuhn(-2-).

Above the Fold:

Silverlight:	"Part 4 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers" Michael Crump
WP7:	"Navigating with the WebBrowser Control on WP7" Shawn Wildermuth

Shoutouts:

John Papa posted that the open call is up for MIX11 presenters: Your Chance to Speak at MIX11

From SilverlightCream.com:

Aspect Examples (INotifyPropertyChanged via aspects): If you're wanting to read a really in-depth discussion of aspect oriented programming (AOP), check out the article Sacha Barber has up at CodeProject discussing INPC via aspects.
How to: Localize a Windows Phone 7 application that uses the Windows Phone Toolkit into different languages: David Anson has a nice tutorial up on localizing your WP7 app, including using the Toolkit and controls such as DatePicker... remember we're talking localized
Windows Phone From Scratch – Animation Part 1: Jesse Liberty continues in his 'From Scratch' series with this first post on WP7 Animation... good stuff, Jesse!
Navigating with the WebBrowser Control on WP7: In building his latest WP7 app, Shawn Wildermuth ran into some obscure errors surrounding browser.InvokeScript. He lists the simple solution and his back, refresh, and forward button functionality for us.
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #7: In the time I was out, Jeff Blankenburg got ahead of me, so I'll catch up 2 at a time... in this number 7 he discusses making videos of your apps, links to the Learn Visual Studio series, and his new website
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #8: Jeff Blankenburg's number 8 is a very cool tip on using the return key on the keyboard to handle the loss of focus and handling of text typed into a textbox.
Resize of a grid by using thumb controls: Martin Krüger has a sample in the Expression Gallery of a grid that is resizable by using 'thumb controls' at the 4 corners... all source, so check it out!
Silverlight 4 – Productivity Power Tools and EF4: Ryan Alford found a very interesting bug associated with EF4 and the Productivity Power Tools, and the way to get out of it is just weird as well.
Silverlight 4 – Toolkit and Theming: Ryan Alford also had a problem adding a theme from the Toolkit, and what all you might have to do to get around this one....
Part 4 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers.: Michael Crump has part 4 of his series on Silverlight Development tips and tricks. This is numbers 16 through 20 and covers topics such as Version information, Using Lambdas, Specifying a development port, Disabling ChildWindow Close button, and XAML cleanup.
The XML content importer and Windows Phone 7: Peter Kuhn wanted to use the XML content inporter with a WP7 app and ran into problems implementing the process and a lack of documentation as well... he pounded through it all and has a class he's sharing for loading sounds via XML file settings.
WP7 snippet: analyzing the hyperlink button style: In a second post, Peter Kuhn responds to a forum discussion about the styles for the hyperlink button in WP7 and why they're different than SL4 ... and styles-to-go to get all the hyperlink goodness you want... wrapped text, or even non-text content.